Motivational Quotes

Work

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.

- Mcgoorty, Danny

Best Quotes about Work

A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.

Book, William Frederick

The fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

Work your way up or rust your way out.

Holton

A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.

W. Somerset Maugham

A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.

Riley, Pat

I believe that good things come to those who work.

Chamberlain, Wilt

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Lombardi, Vince

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Twain, Mark

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

Forbes, B. C.

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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]

Bible

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Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

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I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

Hughes, Charles Evans

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If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

Hubbs, George C.

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The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Ford, Henry

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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.

Oprah Winfrey

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Garfield, James A.

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In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

Marx, Karl

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Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free.

Rohn, Jim

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.

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Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb, French

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Industrial man --a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

Huxley, Aldous

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels -- we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]

Hanks, Tom

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Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

Tracy, Brian

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White man builds big fire, stands back. Indian builds little fire, huddles close

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Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Edison, Thomas A.

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I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

Gillis, Dobie

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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours --all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.

Faulkner, William

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When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

Riley, Pat

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I am his mistress. His work is his wife.

Javits, Marion

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The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic --in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea --known to medical science is work.

Szasz, Thomas

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Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

Jones, Beverly

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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.

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In an earthquake, the most dangerous place to be is in a tall building that is not flexible. Yet, one of the safest places is a tall building that has been stressed for earthquakes -- - in other words, one that has a deep foundation and is flexible. So, too, over the coming years, large organizations that remain rigid will crumble and fall, while those that succeed in adding flexibility, teamwork and creativity to their cultures will thrive.

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You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Crandall, Robert

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Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.

Parkinson's Law

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No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.

Kollwitz, KaThe

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The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.